Lesson 265 ~ Guidance Scribed by Sun~Rose

September 21, 2013 — Course in Miracles Society [CIMS]

Guidance from Elder Brotheras Received and Transcribed by Sun~Rose**~*~*~*~*~*~*~CIMS DAILY LESSON

LESSON TWO HUNDRED-SIXTY FIVE

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

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L e s s o n 265

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

For I am willing to allow but the Eyes of Love to be my only Vision. With those Eyes is Creation lovely as They see Reality behind the dream.

1 I have indeed misunderstood the world because I laid my “sins” on it and saw them looking back at me. – I’ve dreamed the world to block Reality. –How fierce they seemed! All My foolish ‘sins’.

And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world instead of in my mind alone. – Where the world was born and where it remained.

Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. There is no fear in it. To see gentleness, Must I be gentle.

Let no appearance of my “sins” obscure the light of Heaven, shining on the world. Let My mind be filled with only thoughts of Love.

What is reflected here is in God’s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts. – Why? For All is Mind. One or the other, the Mind of God or mindlessness, the hallmark of the ego. – Yet is my mind at one with God’s. And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness. The choice is always Mine: identify with God or with the ego. Which shall it be? The Mind of God is happiness, the ego, misery.

2 In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness.

Amen, so be it.

What is the Body?

“Why?” says the ego, with grandiosity most arrogant and most obnoxious, “It is most obviously what I am. Anyone who isn’t blind can see that!”

1 The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built to separate parts of his Self from other parts. – The body states just who and what I am!” – It is within this fence, he thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles. – Which does ensure that He can stay within the dream for just as long as He wants to. The ego worships death for it does demonstrate that God is cruel, No-One to trust! – For within this fence he thinks that he is safe from love. – What Love can there be in such a God? This is how He thinks; this is how He dreams, sleeping Son of God. His stance ensures that He won’t want to go Home, not to a God Who kills His children off. – Identifying with his safety, he regards himself as what his safety is. – He gives to Himself the only power; yet it isn’t real. –How else could he be certain he remains within the body, – and He fears to step outside His tiny boundaries for fear that it will put an end to His dream of – keeping love outside? and thereby end all dreaming forever. Do not underestimate the attachment of the sleeping Son of God to dreams.

2 The body will not stay. Yet this he sees as double safety. It ends dreams that are tiresome, yet does not end dreaming.

For the Son of God’s impermanence is “proof” his fences work and do the task his mind assigns to them. It proves to Him the separation does remain successful; His goal still achieved.

For if his oneness still remained untouched, who could attack and who could be attacked? Who could be victor? Who could be his prey? Who could be victim? Who the murderer? And if he did not die, what “proof” is there that God’s eternal Son can be destroyed? The story’s over. His whole ‘accomplishment’ but nonsense. The drama nothing. Eons of ‘history’ shown up as pointless.

3 The body is a dream. – And, thus, never real. All ‘history’ a fantasy, including ego’s body, its prized ‘creation’. – Like other dreams, it sometimes seems to picture happiness but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. – And why is this so? – For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. But we can change the purpose which the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for. It was made solely for separation.

4 The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. – For through it can S/He access Her Brothers, He touch His Brothers. – Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. Now it is reversed! The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother and to help him walk along the road with him. Bodies joined in the Love of Brotherhood. No longer to please Oneself, but now to include All Others.

Now is the body holy. Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill. Now it chooses Life, its one true Purpose.

5 You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. And so it becomes; Your choice makes it so.

Your safety lies in truth and not in lies. For Reality only is benign.

Love is your safety. It always has been, and it always will be.

Fear does not exist. Only in the dreaming did it seem real, and Truth shows up its unreality. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self.